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Suprex Learning understands the difficulty parents face with students who struggle to learn and have a learning disability. Finding effective intervention can be a challenge. Suprex learning is here to help with our Educational Therapy classes.

Educational Therapy teaches students how to learn as opposed to what to learn. Many students are diagnosed with learning disorders with no appropriate remedy. Tutoring is a temporary solution that will simply prepare your student for the next test or assist with homework. Educational Therapy creates independent learners that will allow the student to memorize academic material more effectively and approach tasks in a more productive manner.

About Our Learning Disability Therapy in Houston

Suprex Learning has an active educational therapy department. For parents of children who struggle to learn, finding effective intervention can be a challenge. The National Institute of Learning Development (NILD) has developed tools for learning that offer hope. NILD’s goal has been to equip individuals with learning disabilities to succeed academically and in life as independent learners.

NILD Educational Therapy develops thinking skills. We teach how to learn, not just what to learn through individualized, intensive, interactive stimulation producing independent learners in a one-on-one setting.

The Best School for Children with Learning Disabilities

Excelsior Academy is the best school for students with learning disabilities from grades 1-12. If you have a child with learning disabilities including ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia, reading barriers, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia or other education barrier, visit the Excelsior Academy website. The school is located in Sugar Land, Texas.

NILD Educational Therapy- Addressing Learning Disorders

For children age 7- college age

We assist students to overcome their learning disabilities through intense brain stimulation and interactive techniques. Believing that all students can learn and that the brain is open to modification at all stages of development, we provide direct and focused educational treatment for cognitive systems that are weak and vulnerable. The therapy we provide for children and adults with learning difficulties was developed to treat underlying causes of the learning disability rather than simply treating the symptoms.

Our Method

Educational therapy is given twice weekly in 80 minute sessions. We use interactive language and dynamic intervention to develop core academic skills and higher order processing.

Core ET Technique, Rhythmic Writing

Rhythmic Writing improves visual and cognitive skills building visual-motor integration, sensory integration and directionality. It also addresses the lack of focus in students. In Rhythmic Writing, the student traces figure “8s” on a chalkboard, dictates the direction he/she is tracing to the instructor, and answers mental math problems directed by the education specialist. Rhythmic Writing (RW) also includes letter formation and cursive writing. It induces the student to think on different dimension since the student must say the direction he or she is tracing while the Educational Therapist asks simple math operations. See the attached Rhythmic Writing video to see an example of what the core component of ET looks like.

Our Tools

A complete psycho-educational battery of tests identifies areas of cognitive strengths and patterns of vulnerability. Two primary assessment tools are used to determine a student’s cognitive ability, perceptual abilities and academic achievement. These tools include the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children®(WISC- IV) and the Woodcock–Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities. Based upon initial and annual assessments an individual program of NILD Educational is developed for each student from several techniques designed to develop academic skills and higher order processing.

Our Goal

To equip students with life skills, including:

A work ethic of perseverance and diligence

Develop fluency in the academic skills of reading, writing, spelling and math

Reasoning skills for problem solving

Improvement of verbal and written expression

Strengthening of auditory and visual processing skills

Establishment of attention skills

Features of Educational Therapy

One-to-One Teaching

Non-Tutorial

Learning skills, not specific content

Parental Involvement

Providing continued stimulation at home

Strategic Approach to Learning

Individual and Intense

Effecting cognitive change through skilled mediation

All-Age Inclusive

Enhances thinking for individuals at all stages of life

Benefits of Educational Therapy

Individualized Attention

Independent learning

Overcoming cognitive difficulties

Long-term chance

Improved social relationships and self image

Development of responsibility

How NILD Educational Therapy Works

Difficulties in perception and/or cognition impact the learning process and create uneven academic performance. The learning process is represented as a wall with various components. Perceptual and cognitive skills form the foundation of the wall. If any of these areas, such as visual or auditory memory or abstract/logical thinking are weak or vulnerable, academic skills are affected.

After cognitive and perceptual difficulties are strengthened, the learning process functions efficiently. Students become able to learn independently. More like physical therapy or speech therapy, NILD Educational Therapy is boosting weak, vulnerable systems.

Educational Therapy and Learning Disability Testing

The NILD Initial Testing Battery includes a body of formal tests (perceptual and academic) and informal tests. These tests assess the way a student takes in, processes and/or expresses information. They indicate intellectual and information processing strengths and weaknesses. Some of the abilities that the tests cover include memory skills, discrimination, visual-motor skills, and auditory processing.

You can see an overview of our informal educational therapy assessment attached below.

NILD Educational Therapy Training- Houston, Texas

We train our tutors and teachers on Educational Therapy methods to help students with learning disabilities. Each NILD Therapy candidate will receive about 64 hours of in-person training over a 4 week period.

Find out more about the National Institute of Learning Development Educational Therapy program at: http://nild.org/